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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
12
Washington reports the Cabinet ended talk of a summer extra session and affirmed the President will continue current Philippines policy. Attorney General Knox findings and Secretary Root backed War Department control until civil rule can be safely instituted, with timing left to the President and Taft Commission.
Washington June 4 The first of next month full civil government will be set up in the Philippine Islands as protected by the Taft Commission. The new tariff will be proclaimed soon after as planned before the Supreme Court decision. Cabinet discussions showed no change in the program despite the court ruling. Root and Knox found the decisions consistent with continuing the program, and the administration will pursue the original plan under presidential supreme authority.
Benjamin Adams a Yonkers Board of Education member and Saeghill Golf Club member faces trial for violating Penal Code section 265 by golf on Sunday. The Tribune notes blue laws zeal may target prominent citizens, imagining restrictions on food, railroads, soda water, gardens, musicians, church organists, and Sunday collections to reduce Sunday activity.
Cabinet reviews the future civil government to be exercised through military power, with Dingley duties on Philippine imports kept pending Supreme Court guidance. The Foraker act rulings on Puerto Rico are noted as separate, with refunds expected if the system changes. Taft’s appointment is to be telegraphed due to timing.
Washington reports inside details of Cuba's convention handling the Platt amendment. Initial draft approved by General Wood and Secretary Root, but extended alterations were later adopted by the convention. Cubans and Americans believed the amendment would be adopted and were satisfied with the final form.
Washington reports from June 4 that Commander Benjamin F. Tilley, Navy commandant at Tutuila, Samoa, forwards a population count of 4,000 on Tutuila and 2,000 on the Manua group with about 100 whites. He notes improved native governance, a light copra tax of about $1 per inhabitant, ongoing copra harvests, fair pricing efforts, and overall satisfactory conditions and crew health aboard the Abarenda.
Rumors circle on Wall Street that a new Universal Tobacco Company will take over both American and Continental Tobacco, with possible stock absorption or merger by Union Tobacco. Some foresee a share issue to swap for the two firms, issuing 4 percent bonds in exchange, while officials deny the specifics.
The Methodist Episcopal Church mourns Bishop FE W Parker who died in Naini Tal India. Born 1833 in St Johnsbury Vermont he spent forty two years as a missionary in India after graduating in 1859 and being ordained the same year He was stationed at Lucknow and had gone to Naini Tal for health reasons when he died from stomach trouble.
East Orange reports the death in Tokyo on May 2 of Reverend William J. White born 1848 in Portsmouth England. longtime secretary of the English American Bible and Tract Society in Japan. translator of New Testament Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress and Sen Ji Mon. founder of Noble School Tokio. funeral at St Andrews Shiba Tokio. buried Aoyama Cemetery. survived by wife Miss E J Munson Yonkers and two children.
Edward Henry Redfield an eighty year old Bound Brook resident and famed singing master died this morning. born in Killingworth Connecticut he moved to New Jersey in 1840 and taught singing on a circuit from Freehold to Rocky Hill. He served as organist in Cranberry and South Bound Brook churches for decades and was an active Republican. survived by two children.
J Milton Stearns Jr a Brooklyn lawyer born in Middlebury Vermont fifty nine years ago died at his home on Lorimer Street. He studied at Union College and Columbia Law School and retired from practice ten years ago. Survived by a widow and three children funeral to be held this afternoon with Mansfield Post G A R participation. Berlin reports Georg Vierling renowned Berlin composer died in Wiesbaden born September 15 180 in Frankenthal Palatinate became organist at Oberkirche Frankfurt on the Oder later moved to Mainz then Berlin where he founded the Bach Verein his works span many forms with his best known pieces noted.
The composer produced Phony Opus 33 with overtures to The Tempest Marta Stuart Hermannsschlacht and The Rape of the Sabines for chorus and orchestra. He also wrote music for numerous songs and several piano compositions.
James B Beers died at his home 390 Pacific Street Brooklyn in the ninth decade of life He was born in Connecticut in 18H and had lived in Brooklyn since 1845 He worked in publishing and formerly dealt in jewelry and gold pens He belonged to Anglo-Saxon Lodge F and A M The funeral will be held tonight and burial is planned for Newtown
George E O Chase of Sloan and Chase watchmakers Newark died at his home 56 Park street Newark He was born in New York in 1835 and learned the jewelry business He formed a partnership with A K Sloan Chase was active in athletics serving as commodore of a Passaic River rowing event and member of the Atalanta Triton Essex and Athletic clubs He was unmarried.
Joseph Abramson, 39, a Produce Exchange member and son in law of Adolph Strauss, was found with a bullet wound on his head at Union Fields Cemetery Brooklyn. Identified by Strauss, Abramson had lived with Strauss and his daughter Alice since 1899. Strauss said the couple lived happily but Abramson had overtraded and brooded over this tragedy. Nassau County reimbursement demanded.
George Wallace of Hempstead files suit against William H. Jones Smith Cox Edwin C Willets and County Treasurer Eastman to force refunds totaling 20183 27 to 14555 56 and 427 75 for board of prisoners and vagrants plus 14255 56 for a Queens jail bill claiming multiple audit and meeting charges were improper and that mileage was the only allowed payment. He seeks restitution to the county.
In Troy New York on June 4 two members of a leading collar firm denied emphatically that eight major linen goods makers had formed a trust. They called the rumor false and a fairy tale, noting the persistent but unsubstantiated chatter about a collar trust for two years with no manufacturer admitting knowledge of it.
About thirty members of the Architectural League of New York visited Ellis Island yesterday afternoon by invitation of Commissioner Fitchie. They spent two hours examining the new buildings and learning the immigration inspection system, then dined at Hartmann's café in the Washington Building. The Ellis Island trip substituted for the league's usual monthly meeting at West Fifty-seventh Street.
The schooner Mary Buckley under Captain Dunn from Weehawken to Tiverton Rhode Island with coal arrived City Island yesterday and says Tug Transfer No 11 of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad struck her Monday night in Hell Gate. Her bow was stove in and fore rigging carried away.
A. A. Blow, a mining engineer, plans to sail for Ecuador with a well equipped party to explore vast, undeveloped districts. He notes alluvial gold, copper prospects, coal seams, and sulphur deposits, plus rubber forests and hard woods. He predicts a major open mining era as railroads reach Quito and Guayaquil boosts trade.
William Holterman conductor, 52 East Eighty Eighth Street, was thrown from a Fourth avenue electric car while collecting fares on Centre Street near Walker. The rapid move of the trolley and a truck pole backing up struck him on the right side, causing four fractured ribs and a punctured lung. Dr. Nelson at Hudson Street Hospital treated him with ambulance staff.
H. H. Rogers, vice president, was yesterday elected president of the Amalgamated Copper Company, succeeding the late Marcus Daly who had served as acting president since his death.
Scattered showers occurred Tuesday in the Middle West and Northwest and on the North Pacific Coast with thunderstorms on the West Gulf Coast. East of the Mississippi fair weather prevailed as temperatures rose in central valleys and Atlantic states. Forecast calls for scattered rains and cooler temperatures in the West while the East remains warm and fair. Local observations note a warm day with temperatures from 60 to 78.irth. Notices include engagements and obituaries such as Goodridge Iselin, Hammond Blakely, Titsworth Dawson, and several memorials and funeral details.
Notices of deaths for Brown Learey Voorhees Watson White and Wylie plus funeral details at St Patrick's Cathedral and other locations. Includes addresses, ages, and service times with references to hospital auxiliary and relatives.
The notice lists weekly and Saturday sailing times from New York to Europe and the Continent. It details routing for different ships including Archimede, Germania, Zeeland, La Champagne, Potsdam, and Anchoria with destinations Belgium Italy Spain Portugal Turkey Greece India and others. It notes supplementary mails, directions per ship, and that printed matter for Germany only is accepted on the steamer.
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